Childhood maltreatment for survivors creates a risk for the perpetuation of a cycle of violence in the form of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and child maltreatment of the next generation of children. Consistent empirical evidence across studies confirms that abuse and neglect in childhood is associated with: dating violence, serious delinquent behaviors, engaging in risky sex and substance use, physical and sexual revictimization as adult women and maltreatment as parents. Adolescent girls in foster care with histories of childhood maltreatment are at increased risk of multiple forms of interpersonal violence, as adolescents and adults, due to the presence of a multitude of additional risk factors. Mental health problems associated with the trauma of childhood maltreatment include depression, PTSD, and behavioral disorders. These problems tend to be more elevated and prevalent in adolescent girls in foster care. Additionally, these girls often experience multiple behavioral, mental health, and drug and alcohol-related problems that are also linked to interpersonal violence, suggesting that youths in foster care have different and more urgent prevention needs than other adolescents. The magnitude of the relationship between childhood maltreatment, trauma-induced mental health problems and subsequent revictimization and perpetration is so substantial and the consequences so deleterious that researchers have emphasized the necessity of targeting early intervention and prevention resources toward children exposed to violence.